Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gifts from various people.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Special Collections' general artifact collection, M0582, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Content

Miscellaneous artifacts, mostly related to writing or printing and including such things as papyrus fragments, palm-leaf manuscripts,
medals, seals, playing cards, old eye glasses and pens, Arabic scrolls, print blocks, including six by Theo Jung, and two
marble (alabaster?) busts, one of Charles Dickens and one of Dante, nd.

5. God bless copper printing and every other means of duplicating, so that the good that was present can not be destroyed
again. -Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Printed on the handpress in the Bender Room by the History of the Book class of Dr. Susan
V. Lenkey. Stanford,
Spring 1973.7½"× 4".

7. Silver-colored medal, 3" dia. Obverse: William Shakespeare
1564-1616,The 20th anniversary Meisei University with bust in relief. Reverse: What a piece of work is man... --Hamlet. In wooden box
with Japanese[?] characters in gold.

Box 3

8. Five oval plaster cameos, ca. 1" × 2". In grey cardboard box.

Box 3

9. Round bronze medal, 3" dia. Obverse: First American Statue of Gutenberg. Erected in New York by Robert Hoe
1899,relief of G. statue. Reverse: Iohann Gaensefleisch vulgo Gutenberg - born in Mainz Germany betw.
1393-1400,bust of Gutenberg.